The firearm thread

**Mr Merde** · 23rd July 2010, 21:27

The new Super City has finally made me a job proposal.

For almost two years i have been working as the Systems Admin for Papakura Council. The firm has been very happy with my work and I have had regular pay rises reflecting this.

What has the new super city offered me.

1st line telephone support at a reduced salary of $30,000. This is the pay cut they are expecting me to take. I am on 63,000 now so it is nearly a 50% drop.

I havent done 1st line work for almost 20 years now.

For the past few months I have been working my arse off with the transition of thr IT systems. Doing everything they requested of me as well as keeping my councils systems working.

Well they can kiss my hairy arse. From Monday they can send in engineers. i will be refusing to answer any of their requests. I will look after the PDC systems for as long as I am employed by them.

Auckland can go fuck themselves.

I will be making my feelings known by informing the council actively seeking alternative employment from Monday\ morning and they will have the benifit of 2 weeks notice ( all legally I am obliged to give) when i find alternative employment.

If there is anybody out there looking for a sys admin or similar or knows of someone who is, please contact me.

Chris

**jono035** · 23rd July 2010, 21:36

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

The new Super City has finally made me a job proposal.

.....

Wow. Just... Wow...

Seriously?? Did you take a crap in the new CIO's mailbox or something? If you didn't, then you probably should, just to get some value out of this.

I hope they change their mind, although I guess you'll be pretty pissed off even if they do.

That's a truly bureaucratic way of rewarding the crazy hours you've been putting in...

There's always the option of quitting with the 2 weeks notice then, when they can't figure out how to do anything, offering to work for them as an external contractor... I know a few people who have turned BS like that into a good money spinner.

**Drunken Monkey** · 24th July 2010, 11:11

That's a shafting and they know it.

Will keep an eye out, I know network services stuff is starting to pick up again and I've still got lots of contacts. You'd probably have to work in the big smoke though, doing site to site stuff, and it would range from server projects to 2nd line desktop support.

Still some good may come out of it, you might spot an opportunity you weren't hunting for before. I took a 30% pay cut and left network services for SQL/Reporting/BI and it's been worth every cent.

PS - On a different note, I managed to get over my sale fever in time to not throw money at a new .308 rifle, so I'll be keeping yee olde faithfull mister Hale for now.

**The Pastor** · 24th July 2010, 13:01

thats crap chirs!, sorry to hear the lame news, Hope you get a decent job offer soon

**cold comfort** · 25th July 2010, 19:20

News tonight- "high powered air rifles will require a firearms license". Well that will put a stop to the criminals using them-yeah, right! How many of the Asian crims with their recently seized fire arms had licences? Jan Molenaar ONCE had a licence but not at the time of his offending. The mooted (but as yet in the too hard basket) of monitoring internet sales may help however. Talk about pointless rules. I was told, when applying to renew mine, i had to have a lockup container for the weapon i did not have. My assurance that i would store said rifle safely in the unlikely event i purchased one fell on deaf ears. (I only wanted it to give me the choice, and the ability to maybe buy one as a present for my son (who has a licence). When I added up the cost of the cabinet and the licence it wasn't worth it.
If there is public uprising it will just be easier to steal one (or grab one off the internet)!

**Indiana_Jones** · 25th July 2010, 21:53

Crap news about the job situation Chris. Typical council cunts really...

Here's to a better job.....maybe closer to me

-Indy

**Mr Merde** · 26th July 2010, 08:12

I just informed my HR dept that I am actively seeking alternative employment.

That when I do get an other job that I will be giving the minimum amount of notice, 2 weeks, as per the laws of the land.

ALso that since I have 8 weeks holiday owed that I will be taking this over the next 3 months

**Swoop** · 26th July 2010, 08:27

It is nice to see that the Green Party MP Keith Locke is a complete idiot.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10661222
Green MP Keith Locke agreed with tightening purchase rules, but said all firearms should be registered.

"Then when police turn up to an address they will then have a better idea of what guns might be inside. Gun registration would reduce the danger to police and make communities safer.

He disregards the Canadian Gun Registry and the BILLIONS of canadian dollars that were wasted with a registration system that failed miserably.

The current system is far more robust with licenced shooters. Criminals will not register or bother to obtain a licence.

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

ALso that since I have 8 weeks holiday owed that I will be taking this over the next 3 months

Can you get it paid out in ca$h???

**Drunken Monkey** · 26th July 2010, 09:04

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

I just informed my HR dept that I am actively seeking alternative employment.

That when I do get an other job that I will be giving the minimum amount of notice, 2 weeks, as per the laws of the land.

ALso that since I have 8 weeks holiday owed that I will be taking this over the next 3 months

Fair enough, although honestly wouldn't you just say nothing and look for another job anyway???

**The Pastor** · 26th July 2010, 09:22

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

I just informed my HR dept that I am actively seeking alternative employment.

That when I do get an other job that I will be giving the minimum amount of notice, 2 weeks, as per the laws of the land.

Also that since I have 8 weeks holiday owed that I will be taking this over the next 3 months

Might be wiser to save your holiday pay if you can't find another job right away?

**The Pastor** · 26th July 2010, 09:33

Just got sent a copy of this book

http://www.safarisupply.co.nz/shop/B...Alex+Gale.html

And it is amazing, it really is. If you want to know anything about deer stalking grab a copy, well written, loads of diagrams, color photos, covers everything from deer species to where they live to how to hunt them to gear, to map/gps using to first aid to venison recipes.

The author was the guy who took me hunting - he really knows his stuff.

**jono035** · 26th July 2010, 13:29

Originally Posted by renegade master

Just got sent a copy of this book

http://www.safarisupply.co.nz/shop/B...Alex+Gale.html

And it is amazing, it really is. If you want to know anything about deer stalking grab a copy, well written, loads of diagrams, color photos, covers everything from deer species to where they live to how to hunt them to gear, to map/gps using to first aid to venison recipes.

The author was the guy who took me hunting - he really knows his stuff.

Nice, might pick up a copy for a family member who is just starting out. I like that the website thinks that I might also like a copy of 'A (Nearly) Complete History of the Moose in New Zealand'.

**jono035** · 26th July 2010, 20:03

Well, the target 10/22 is mine no longer. Now, what do do with the proceeds... Perhaps it's finally time to get around to getting that Marlin 1894 in .44Mag... Oh the possibilities...

**Mr Merde** · 27th July 2010, 07:48

Sunday I decided to get out some reloading gear and make a start on something.

Cast a couple of hundred heads for the 32-40 and the 45-70.

The 32-40 was interesting. Took a long time to bring the mould to temperature. It is solid brass. Once it was up there it cast some very nice looking bullets at 170 gns using a 1:30 tin/lead mixture. For the 45-70 I cast some 405 gn bullets. Lighter by 130 gns that my other mould and it shows in the over all length.

Once cast I then proceeded to load the 32-40. Well some of them any way. I now have 50 loaded rounds for the 32-40 sitting in the safe.

Loaded the 170 gn bullet over 34.5 gns of FFg Goex. Compression was about 1/4 inch, and it is sparked off by a large pistol primer. This round looks strange when loaded. It has a tapered case and the bullet seats ove half its length into the case.

Now to go somewhere and let another 100 year old gun roar back into life.

Chris

**jono035** · 27th July 2010, 07:57

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

Sunday I decided to get out some reloading gear and make a start on something.

Cast a couple of hundred heads for the 32-40 and the 45-70.

The 32-40 was interesting. Took a long time to bring the mould to temperature. It is solid brass. Once it was up there it cast some very nice looking bullets at 170 gns using a 1:30 tin/lead mixture. For the 45-70 I cast some 405 gn bullets. Lighter by 130 gns that my other mould and it shows in the over all length.

Once cast I then proceeded to load the 32-40. Well some of them any way. I now have 50 loaded rounds for the 32-40 sitting in the safe.

Loaded the 170 gn bullet over 34.5 gns of FFg Goex. Compression was about 1/4 inch, and it is sparked off by a large pistol primer. This round looks strange when loaded. It has a tapered case and the bullet seats ove half its length into the case.

Now to go somewhere and let another 100 year old gun roar back into life.

Chris

Let me know when you do.

I was having a think about that mould, a cheap electric hot-plate could be the way to go to bring it up to temperature. Just sit it on the hot-plate for a bit while your pot warm up and then get straight to the casting.